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Spatial Working Memory Interferes with Explicit, but Not Probabilistic Cuing of Spatial Attention
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Won, Bo-Yeong; Jiang, Yuhong V. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Recent empirical and theoretical work has depicted a close relationship between visual attention and visual working memory. For example, rehearsal in spatial working memory depends on spatial attention, whereas adding a secondary spatial working memory task impairs attentional deployment in visual search. These findings have led to the proposal…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability
No Two Cues Are Alike: Depth of Learning during Infancy Is Dependent on What Orients Attention
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Wu, Rachel; Kirkham, Natasha Z. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
Human infants develop a variety of attentional mechanisms that allow them to extract relevant information from a cluttered multimodal world. We know that both social and nonsocial cues shift infants' attention, but not how these cues differentially affect learning of multimodal events. Experiment 1 used social cues to direct 8- and 4-month-olds'…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Learning Processes, Attention
Memories of Reward and Nonreward Regulate the Extinction and Reacquisition of both Excitatory and Inhibitory Associations
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Capaldi, E. J.; Martins, Ana P. G.; Altman, Meaghan – Learning and Motivation, 2009
arrow]US associations also survived The memories of the unconditioned stimulus (US) and its absence (No US), symbolized as S[superscript R] and S[superscript N], respectively, may be retrieved on US or No US trials giving rise to four types of associations, S[superscript R][right arrow]US, S[superscript R][right arrow]No US, S[superscript N][right…
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Animal Behavior, Rewards, Experimental Psychology
Better Learning with More Error: Probabilistic Feedback Increases Sensitivity to Correlated Cues in Categorization
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Little, Daniel R.; Lewandowsky, Stephan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Despite the fact that categories are often composed of correlated features, the evidence that people detect and use these correlations during intentional category learning has been overwhelmingly negative to date. Nonetheless, on other categorization tasks, such as feature prediction, people show evidence of correlational sensitivity. A…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cues, Attention, Classification
Are Differential Orienting Responses Necessary for Dimensional Learning and Transfer?
Howard, Darlene V.; Shepp, Byran E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
This study is designed to investigate the effects of cue discriminability on discriminative performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Attention, Educational Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Learning
Experiments on a Shoestring. A Handbook of Experiments and Demonstrations for General Psychology which May be Carried Out Inexpensively and Without Access to Formal Apparatus.
Minahan, Nancy M. – 1971
This booklet is intended to provide a number of experiments and demonstrations in each area of psychology which may be carried out in situations where the instructor wishes to provide class involvement and some understanding of experimental procedure, but does not have access to the apparatus generally used in experimental psychology. The 75…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Demonstrations (Educational), Experimental Psychology